The mutant community is split when a company announces that it has developed a cure for the mutant gene. Some are shocked that their condition should be treated as a disease, some are relieved that a normal life may now be possible. Magneto, predictably, sees this as an attempt by humankind to eradicate mutants and, you know, he might be right.

7/10

As with Hannibal Lecter series entry Red Dragon, Brett Ratner delivers a surprisingly good movie against all expectation. It’s excellent for a long time and builds to very great scene about half-way through which generates enough goodwill and momentum to take us through the slightly messy second-half. There’s a lot here to like and while critics correctly sniffed that it wasn’t as good as Bryan Singer’s X-Men 2, not much is and it’s better than the first X-Men and Singer’s own 2006 superhero movie Superman Returns. Ratner’s reward was a huge opening weekend, a profit-making movie and snide remarks ever since.

Classified 12A by BBFC. Persons under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

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